Abstract

A formalism is developed for expressing annihilation cross sections directly in terms of the vacuum expectation values of certain time-ordered products. This necessitates the introduction of a class of operators defined as spatial of multilocal products of fields. The formalism is used to study qualitatively the effects of a dilute gas of instantons on weighted cross sections, and also to rederive results on the cancellation of mass divergences.

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